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But just after the pair decided to turn around, something bit the man's leg.

"I figured it was either an elephant ... or a polar bear ... or a shark. So pretty quickly I got to shark," Myers jokes. "It felt like I was in a very, very heavy vise."

The great white shark then surfaced between father and son, who were about 6 feet apart, arching its back as if intentionally showing itself to them, he said.

The shark slipped under the waters, and the men swam back to shore where they were helped by a doctor and a nurse who happened to be on the shoreline.

Myers was composed until he realized he had survived a great white shark attack. He had only one word to describe that moment: "euphoria."

The physical damage caused by the shark was far less than it could have been. Myers has a cast on his left leg because his tendons were severed and 47 stitches on his right leg, where the teeth of the shark left several puncture wounds.

Great white sharks range from 12 to 21 feet and weigh nearly 3 tons. They are believed to live longer than 30 years.